USAspending.gov · NAICS 423450 · Wholesale Trade
Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
Top-third NAICS industry by calendar-2024 contract dollars — code 423450 in Wholesale Trade.
- CY2024 awards
- $1.9B
- Corpus rank
- #49 of 499
- Award plate
- HEAVY
- Sector
- WHOLE · WEIGHTY
Medical, Dental, federal industry awards
Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (NAICS 423450) ranks #49 of 499 tracked industries by calendar-2024 contract dollars at $1.9B.
Medical, Dental, takes 21.1% of WHOLE sector dollars in the calendar-2024 window, a heavy share within its two-digit NAICS sector. See /methodology/#naics.
Year-over-year change, 2019–2024
Across the calendar years on file, Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers’s annual contract dollars rose from $1.9B in 2023 to $1.9B in 2024. 3.7% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2020 at $6.0B.
Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures use the same NAICS classification basis as the CY2024 headline above.
How Medical, Dental, leads the CY2024 industry award board
$1.9B · #49 of 499 by CY2024 industry awards , a top-third NAICS industry by calendar-2024 contract dollars (same board as the industries listing). See methodology.
$1.9B under NAICS 423450 · #49 of 499 , HEAVY · WHOLE · WEIGHTY · DRIFT. 2019→2024: 47→49 of 499 (0.30%→0.26% of tracked industry dollars) ; #3/14 in WHOLE. Nearest ABS peer: Surgical and Medical Instrument… at $1.9B (HEAVY).
Calendar-2024 actions under NAICS 423450 count as opportunity size, not firm revenue. This code carries a heavy share of its WHOLE sector window. Populations, lag, and NAICS/SBA rules: methodology.
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Mega-scale industry peers nationwide
Cross-sector peers from the USAspending NAICS extract: nearest mega-scale calendar-2024 award dollars and nearest sector-weight share. Not recommendations.
Closest CY2024 award dollars
Similar sector weight
- Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels 21.1% · $367.5M
- Natural Gas Extraction 21.2% · $30.6M
- Nonscheduled Chartered Freight Air Transportati… 21.3% · $4.3B
- Professional and Management Development Training 20.6% · $1.0B
- Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction 20.1% · $10.2B
- Engineering Services 22.2% · $53.9B
Disclaimer: Data from USAspending.gov public records. For informational purposes only. Industry spending amounts are aggregated from contract awards and may not reflect the most current data. Always verify with official sources.
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